Russian History

Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg

Elizaveta Shelaeva. Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg.  A richly illustrated photographic journey of old St. Petersburg, which, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the capital of Imperial Russia. The Russia of the Tsars is on...

Photographs For The Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography Of Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Robert Allshouse. Photographs For The Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography Of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii. An astonishing view of Old Russia just before the takeover by the Bolsheviks. Tsar Nicholas II commissioned color photographs from...

Russian Heraldry and Nobility

Russian Heraldry and Nobility. Donald Mandich and Joseph Placek. Russian heraldry appeared much later than in most other European countries and by the late 17th century, it achieved great significance. This ambitious and comprehensive tome uses as its...

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

Edvard Radzinsky. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II.  Russian historian and author Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the last Tsar of Russia, and sets out a minute-by-minute...

Spala, the Royal Residence

Spala, the Royal Residence (Spala, carska rezydencja). Svetlana Chestnykh, Karen L. Kettering, Michal Sloniewski. A group of historians from three countries joined forces to find and save traces of an almost unknown world of Imperial Russian hunting and...

Russian Art at Hillwood

Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and...

Pavlovsk Palace & Park

Anatoly M. Kuchumov (Author), A. Travlinsky (Translator), J. Hine (Translator). Pavlovsk Palace & Park. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 1st edition. Over 300 pages, profusely illustrated in color together with an historically...

Russian Imperial Style [Cerwinske, 1990]

Laura Cerwinske. Russian Imperial Style.  An elegant and beautifully illustrated, full-color paean to the lost world of 19th century Russia's aristocratic opulence melded with formal design. Cerwinske (1948-) focuses on eye-catching object d'art,...

Ten Days That Shook the World [ML #215, c. 1953].

John Reed. Ten Days That Shook the World. (The Modern Library, No. 215). Foreword by V.I. Lenin, introduction by Granville Hicks. Now classic account of the Russian revolution. Reed, immortalized on the silver screen by Warren Beatty in 1981 (Reds), was...

Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Russia [MM]

Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia. This ambitious and comprehensive book was published to accompany a landmark exhibition - "Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Russia" - held in Wilmington,...

New Russia [1933]

Jerome Davis, editor. Introduction by Edward M. House. The New Russia: Between the First and Second Five Year Plans. NY: John Day, 1933. First edition. Bibliography, glossary. 265 pages. An attempt on the part of a group of sociologists and economists to...

Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917.

Harrison Salisbury. Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917. . A fast-paced narrative captures the rich drama of the most crucial political/historical event of the twentieth century. He exposes the strata of Russian society, with its...

Rude & Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of 16th c. English Voyagers

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers.  A tapestry of accounts by six English voyagers who visited Russia between 1553 and 1600, including Chancelor & Jenkinson, Randolph, Turberville, Fletcher,...

The Russian Worker

The Russian Worker. Victoria E. Bonnell (Editor). English translation edition of contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five...

Empire of the Czar: Journey Through Russia

Marquis De Custine. Empire of the Czar. An excellent travelogue by the French aristocrat Marquis de Custine (1790-1857) who,  in the 1830's, traveled throughout Russia. He details the personalities and workings of society and the court at...

Russian Blood [Memoir]

CYBER MONDAY WEEK SPECIAL! Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff became curious about the history of his family. At that time, both his grandmothers were in their 90s. With a heightened sense of urgency, Shoumatoff collected their stories...

The Holy Place: Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow

The Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia. K. Akinsha, G. Kozlov & S. Hochfield. CT (New Haven): Yale University Press, 2007. 60 illustrations. Hardcover, 224 pages.   The authors examine the extraordinary two-century...

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

CYBER MONDAY WEEK SPECIAL! White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. A gripping and enthralling memoir of the onset of the Russian Revolution and the path of defeat for the White Army. Illyn was a young bride and her husband, a White Army...